St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-06
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC DUDES.

LII was woman suffrage day and a local
florist had left on the desk of each member
a bouttonaire, which subsequently rose and
fell on their manly bOSOmS. They were a
spruce-looking body of men in these orna-
ments thrown down to them from the hand
of nature. and each man looked several
inches taller and degree straighter when
he rose to talk back at the speaker. Moore,
of Sully. the oldest member of the house
and champion of the cause of woman
suffrage, looked twenty years younger as
he pranced around the hall OH dress parade
before the admiring eyes of the women,
with whose interests and rights he had
identified himself. He had discarded the
blue flannel shirt laced at the neck with a
sllken cord, which he has worn throughout
the session. for a linen affair spotted with
tiny butterflies and topped off with a stiff,
intrusive collar that gouged his chin and
caused him to hold his head so high up that
it pervaded him with an air of great im-
pOrtance. Adams and White were left.
Some one had appropriated the flowers in
tended for their garnishment, but each man
was handsome enough to attract attention
without the aid of floral decorations and
they murmured not. Irresistible
TOM ELLIOTT, IN BEADED MoCCASINS.
stepped about four feet up in the air when
he waltzed through the lobby, a hero in the
eyes of every pretty woman in the blossom
ing aisle of female auditors. The bill that
had drawn this audience to the capitol was
Wards, No. 1876, and provided that women
over the age of 21 years be allowed to vote
on questions of temperance ana education
in all county, town and municipal elections.
Ats o'clock the house went into committee
of the whole to consider this measure as a
special order. Jones, of Charles Mix. oc-
cuped the chair, and faced throng of
strong minded women and advocates of
their cause without tremor. Ward opened
the ball by moving thatth cOmmitte recon-
mend that the bill pass i'll its present form.
AS substitute DR.. Stewart moved that it
be indefinitely postponed. From that time
until $50 the advocates OF, the bill never
saw minute when they were on top. 1t
was hot and interesting battle of words
on the side of the aggressors, with no OBJ
ject but to afford amusement for he-look-
ers on. Fletcher unbound his eloQuence
and
QUOTED POETRY
and rallied against the question according to
the manuscript he had prepared for the
occasion, and succeeded in getting nearly
every lady in the house, both friends and
enemies of the bill, down on him. His ar
gument was without point, but 1t was a
clever hanging together of brilliant adject-'
ives and borrowed phrases. He pointed the
finger of derison at the women who labored
in the factories of the East, and insiRuated
that they could not be pure and honorable
under the circumstances which surrounded
them. He sawed the air wildly with his
arms and shook his fists at the ladies, and
was at last called to order by several men,
bers who claimed that he was not discuss
ing the bill under consideration. IndOmita-
bic Shook, of Minnewaukah, lost his head
in the sea of enthusiasm that tossed about
the house and fought the bill savagely. He
howled and stamped until he could be heard
in the Saskatchewan valley. He eulogized
his wife and babies. and declared that he
was unanimously against any law that
gave his wife the right to the ballot box
and compelled him to stay at home and
play wet nurse. Everybody shouted and
everybody applauded. MentZer, the Mitchell
fighter loomed up loaded to the muzzle and
shot wads of electrified argument north,
east, south and west He is not married
man, but said he wanted to go on record as
being opposed to the bill on general priEci-
pies. He argued that if the bill was passed
by the legislature it would be null and void,
for, according to the organic act, women
could not he given the right of suffrage. At
last Moore, of Sully,
RESPLENDENT WITH BADGES
and floral decorations, arose and began a
rambling nightmare talk that lasted nearly
an hour At the start he spoke very low,
Shook yelled louder" Moore replied in
the following words:
suppose when the Angel Gabriel stands
with one foot on the sea and the other on the
land, and through his brazen trumpet an